“A funny little literary article in the hand is worth at least three Critiques of Pure Reason in the bush.”
“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, unless it is the burning bush, in that case the value of your bird just went up!!”
“[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.”
“A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.”
“Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.”
“A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush”